STATUS REPORT ON COVERT ACTIONS IN VIETNAM (KEYED TO 28 NOVEMBER REPORT)

Created: 4/18/1962

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STATUS REPORT ON

COVBRT ACTIONS IN VIETNAM (Keyed toovember Report)

Montagnard (Highlander) Program:

According to reports recelvsd by the Vietnamese Army tactical area coasjandsr, the VC In Darlac Province areover progress being made in the hlgblandsr village defense program and its eventual reduction of theirfreedom. The VC have decided on two countering measure**: to overrun the villages by force, or convert the villagers to their side after they have been trained and armed.

A prograji toompany of highland trail watchers in Quang Tri Province was initlatod, and CVN authorities agreed to use the graduating class of the Highlander school of tbe social action directorate at Hue for use as civic action cadre in conjunction with this trail watcher program.

b. Rural Reconstruction Operatlone:

Onpril the second flve-wesk civic action ministry paramilitary training course at Danang Training Baseivic action cadresouth leaders. Most of the civic action group were then assigned to Binh Duong Province for duties with operation SUNRISE.

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I Intelligence Organisation (CIO):

March PresidentMinistries and otherthe ovm to channel all Inforsatlon usable in intelligence

to the Vietnamese CIO.

Die* ordernd the CIO BNiio^efl^OnTrBieio^eDtriiiiPd document study and exploitation to furnish documents needed In QVTf psychological programs to the Directorate General of Inforsatlon (DGI) and tha Directorate of Arsry Psychological Warfare.

Penetration Operations with national Police and

AnPSS personnel completed psychological testing In five centers throughout the country during the past week. The testa were designed to provide betterand placement of KPSS and DI8 personnel.

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seelnars were begun for esse officers of thepecial Division which will concentrate onand Improvement of Joint operations against local VC elements.

f. NO significant change.

Ho significant change.

0. Provincial Survey:

Four additional surveys of provincial units of theolice and Security Serviceere completed by CIO teas*): two in the southwest, one in the south eel and one In the highlands.

6. Dee of Chinese nationalist Personnel:

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ounds of ammunition airdropped to at Binh Hungpril. In addition, map support from AJtVX to equip with rifles an full civil guard companies, ea.

arch, the plans service of the Directorate ofwas ordsred to formulate plans for covert action to improve the public image of President Diss and the Nhus, and to popularize the women's paramilitary forces In the strategic hamlet forces.

Plans were drawn upoint attackh Group (Vietnamese Special Forces) and civil guardC training camp in the Thanh Trl area of Ba Xuyen. The VC Phu Lol Battalion, augmenteden, has been operating into Sakoo from that srss. Additional weapons were dropped to Catholic youth groups there and in other points in the delta whereh Group

JsjbMil>3'IVrscontinuen to train the groups.

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AnO0 pounds of miscellaneous gearprils, and USAF alrdxoppeaTTve^ons of rice and0 pair of nhoes.

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The aid vas limited to Vletnaa, however, and primarily designed, With Hgo Dlnh Hhu's approval, merely to keep Thanhtring In case the political situation In Cambodia were to deteriorate.

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